While the concept might not be able to stand on its own, I'm sure everyone has a band that they just love from album to album no matter what (though the level of love might differ). List is one of mine, no particular order. Share yours?

You're not kidding about unconditional love if you put Making Monsters on here...

My band's AFI, because they started my musical development when I was twelve (I had previously only listened to classical music, haha), so they pretty much got me onto more abrasive music (even if they aren't anymore...).

Lol, I've listened to StS probably nearly 300 times by now... That, Blacks Sails, and Art of Drowning are my favorite by them.

I can't deal with Andy's "singing", non-shouting voice for some reason, so I really couldn't listen to it more than a few times. I like the first three albums on your list, although not as much as I used to, because I associate them with my scummy ex, haha.

Opeth has ONE track that I can love to death, I need to search for others like it. NIN was ruined by an ex of mine, though luckily she never had The Fragile - I've yet to buy it (don't want to download it) but I love that album. I'm a sucker for Bauhaus personally.

Peter Murphy's newest album was god-like, I love his voice! I like most of the original post-punk groups, though I don't have many/any albums by most of them I wanted to know who they were when I started into the genre.

I love "The Leper Affinity" to death, I rocked out to that track so many times in my dorm last year!

54 and still awesome as ever, really. He has the best stage antics, haha.

By "original post-punk groups", do you mean like Bauhaus, Siouxsie, Killing Joke, The Cure, etc.? All excellent, but it's too bad not that many people seem to like post-punk on here. Well, not that it attracts that many young fans anymore... :/

I almost always listen to Opeth albums the whole way through; I can't just listen to one song, haha. Do you not like the rest of Blackwater Park?

Yes I mean those, The Cure I have albums from the others I have choice hits/videos; I love the prominent bass lines that Post-Punk has, not to mention I've been able to see a local-ish band in the genre (or similar genre) live.

The rest is a let down, the melodic parts in "The Leper Affinity" work (for me) because of the growls and harsher elements whereas the other tracks tone down the "brutality" and amp up the melodic style. I can give them props for being a great band and they are very talented, I just can't listen to their melodic songs for very long as they pale in comparison to the growls.

Ooh, yes, the bass line in "Lucretia, My Reflection" is one of my favorites and definitely a reason why I'm a sucker for Sisters of Mercy, hahaha. Best song for goth clubbing. :D

So I gather you won't be picking up the new Opeth album when it drops, then? Haha, well, you should definitely check out their older stuff, then, like Orchid, which that song Angel recced is from. Also, "The Moor" from Still Life (that album, in general).

If you don't like their mellower stuff, then yeah, you'll probably want to steer clear. But, for me, I love old-school prog, krautrock, and psychedelic music and think Mike has one of the best singing voices in music, so I'm still looking forward to it.

More like industrial clubs, ironically enough I'm from Missouri. My bandmate just got done touring the East coast and brought back tales of the scene there, sadly our little fetish shows and normal nights are rather large even when compared to those in larger cities! We've currently got a weekly industrial/goth night that garners an ok/small crowd, and the fetish shows pull in a lot more as do the bands. It's a pretty cool thing to have going on here, I just wish I had a few thousand so I could renovate the place.

Yeah, the goth/punk scenes have been choked out for the most part in cities even like New York, where I am, so most events are smaller than you'd think, so I'm not surprised you guys have a similar sized crowd, haha. I was actually most disappointed at the lack of record shops here that stock less mainstream metal/punk. There are seriously only two decent ones. :/

Although we do have things like goths having water gun fights in Washington Square Park, so there's that.

Yeah, I wish I had a million dollars so I could buy one of the riverside abandoned factories and convert it into some kind of alt hub... I better become a famous artist soon, hahaha.